James and Danielle also reveal how Ooyala and FreeWheel customers can better monetize their video content through recently deployed ad integration between the two companies.

This new ad integration supports Flash and HTML5 players, as well as iOS/Android SDKs. This gives any customer the ability to monetize their content with ads, and optimize revenue across an entire video — not just a single ad slot.

Freewheel ad integration, when combined with Ooyala’s video solutions, lets content owners not only prescribe ads, but also use detailed analytics to make smarter, more profitable digital monetization decisions. In many ways, this solution simplifies and optimizes an increasingly complex and fragmented multi-channel advertising landscape.

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Danielle Linares: How does FreeWheel help media companies make more money online?

James Rothwell: We help our media and entertainment companies scale and monetize their premium content across all devices, with all partners.

We do that with a combination of products and services.

Our products are our ad management system, a financial operations system, and an advisory services team that helps to consult across how to use our tools better, how to cut better inventory deals, or how to better structure your digital teams.

So, through that combination of services, and through the ad sales rights management that our system provides, we are able to follow content wherever it goes, and monetize it more effectively.

DL: Let's talk a little bit about FreeWheel and Ooyala as integrated partners. Are you guys as pumped as we are about this?

JR: We're very excited that FreeWheel and Ooyala are working together so tightly.

We started our integration points around HTML5 and Flash, which is where most people start their digital forays in digital. But now we've expanded that across screens to meet the demand, so iOS and Android are now part of our integration.

So now any customer can work with FreeWheel and Ooyala together to scale their content across all connected screens. We’re very excited about that.

DL: If you had a crystal ball, do you see mobile and tablet video ads increasing in the coming months?

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